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Excellent news. Hopefully, all the hype on the OS means his arrival at SMS will be worth the wait! Fingers crossed he's not the only new arrival into the building.

Absolutely. Was kind of hoping something would be done early this week to at least allow a small period of integration before the Forest game. Still, in NA we trust; not got much wrong so far, has he?!

http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/12691/7422769/Fontaine-signs-new-City-deal Looks like Liam Fontaine won't be our centre back reinforcement then...

Maybe he's cover for the right side of midfield while Chaplow & possibly Guly are unavailable?

Could we take over the loan from Spurs? Is that possible?

Adkins did mention loans so maybe this is the loan? Just the permanent mega signing now Nige!

Didn't sign yesterday then, although a specific date for a Monday signing wasn't given...

My wife deals with (student) visas & stuff (not going to pretend I understand) but she tells me he was probably here on some short term sporting visa but will need to return home initially before his full time work permit is approved (probably not the correct the terminology but I think you get the gist).

http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/12691/7420724/Rovers-to-fight-for-Sharp Funny, he may go nowhere at all...

It's Freddie Sears. He's a West Ham player who has been on loan at Scunny.

Any news on why he wasn't playing today?

Actually, thinking about it, it's gone rather quiet from those who have said they know someone who knows him... Maybe it's all gone quiet because that's the way we do our business? Or maybe it's because nothing is happening! Think it'll be an interesting week if we're looking for signings before Forest.

I guess we should've asked the most obvious question too... source?

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/football/spl/celtic/2012/01/08/celtic-snub-southampton-as-they-move-for-star-striker-gary-hooper-86908-23687713/ We've had a bid turned down apparently. Maybe he is the major signing Adkins is after...

If we were to sign Jutkiewicz would he be the "major" signing Adkins talked of?

Did he say whether they were brining Jut back from the Ricoh as we happened to be in the area?

Are we back in for Jutkiewicz according to tweets on Twitter? We're at the right place today to corner him for a chat!! Could even offer him a lift back on the bus...

Probably a good idea to give him an away game to restore his confidence a bit. Another home game, with potentially 30k Saints fans holding their breath every time the ball went near him, could've finished him off. Good stuff.

If we're looking for a finisher then Cox is a good option. Type of name we should be looking at, IMO, as he's better than we already have alongside Lambo.

Damn you Adkins. I was hoping you were going to say you were going to spend like Wayne Rooney in a whorehouse before the Forest game... All sounds promising nonetheless.

Good to see we've started our business early. Hopefully there will be more additions to follow. It'll be interesting to see whether Lee is our sole striking addition or whether we plan to add a more proven name from this division, like Sharp or Jut, too.

Sounds like its all done bar the permit, as Colinjb says, otherwise we wouldn't be confirming anything (+ we must be pretty confident on that too to release details on the OS). I'm guessing he'll take the vacant no 19 shirt as he's pictured wearing 19 for Japan on the OS?

Finally we'd have a proper replacement for Puncheon...

Not that fussed about the game unless we bring Jutkiewicz back on the bus (although I'd prefer Sharp & someone on the Jut thread said he might be up at Boro already anyway!

Could we also have been watching Billy Sharp?